Cairo Features

Cairo Features

• Top Reasons to Go to Cairo
  

  The First View of the Great Pyramids: Stand at the viewing platform on the Pyramids plateau and gaze out over the only remaining wonder of the... read more

• Baron Empain
  

  Édouard Louis Joseph, Baron Empain, was born in 1852 in a small town in Belgium. His first career was as a draughtsman, but during his... read more

• Life in a Coptic Monastery
  

  Copts may elect to join a monastery after they have fulfilled some surprisingly unspiritual requirements. They need to be at least 25 years old... read more

• A Feast of Fasting
  

  The monthlong Ramadan holiday is a remarkable experience, exciting, and, yes, potentially frustrating. Fasting during Ramadan from sunrise to... read more

• Books and Movies About Egypt
  

  If you live in a city with an Arab neighborhood, you might have some luck tracking down the films of Egypt's best-known director, the recently... read more

• The Jewish Community in Cairo
  

  The Chaar-Hachamaim Synagogue was paid for with contributions from some of the most powerful men in Cairo—a small coterie of Jewish families... read more